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Only Quotes

On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.

The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Quotes by Jacques-Louis David

I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.

Quotes by Jade Jagger

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

Quotes by Jaggi Vasudev

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

Quotes by Jahangir Khan

You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals.

Quotes by Jahangir Khan

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Quotes by Jacques Lacan

For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon......

Quotes by Jacques Parizeau

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at...

Quotes by Jacques Pepin

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Quotes by Jacques Santer

When I first took the bench, I was assigned to handle a calendar of criminal cases. It was an enormous docket. I tried in each case to make sure that the litigants not only in fact received, but also felt...

Quotes by Jacqueline Nguyen

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Quotes by Jacques Barzun

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Quotes by Jacques Derrida

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Quotes by Jacques Derrida

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Quotes by Jacopo Sannazaro

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Quotes by Jacqueline Bisset

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Quotes by Jacob Bronowski

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Quotes by Jacob Bronowski

I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

Quotes by Jacob Latimore

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Quotes by Jacob Riis

Frequently Asked Questions

What subjects do the "Only" quotes on this page cover?
The quotes touch on horror as a film genre that blends experimental technique into the mainstream, geopolitical strategy around balance of power in Europe, and reflections on the empirical foundations of science and modern physics.
Is there a quote here about horror movies?
Yes, one discusses horror as one of the only genres able to weave abstract, experimental filmmaking techniques into mainstream cinema, noting that creating something genuinely spooky takes particular skill.
Does this page include anything about geopolitics?
Yes, one quote discusses the balance of power in Eurasia from an Anglo-American perspective, weighing the choice of aligning with a Western Europe against Russia.
Is there a quote here about science and physics?
Yes, two touch on this - one on how scientific concepts are drawn from empirical data, and another on how the "foundations of physics have started moving" as modern physics developed, unsettling older assumptions. For more thoughtful, reflective lines, see Life or Good.
Is this page more scientific and political than personal?
Yes, these particular quotes lean intellectual and analytical rather than personal. For more everyday, relatable quotes, try Like or Me.

You can also browse our Good quotes and Like quotes for lighter reflections.